Antonio Gramsci
An Italian Marxist philosopher and politician who developed the concept of cultural hegemony, explaining how dominant ideologies maintain power in society.
Quotes by Antonio Gramsci
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
History teaches, but has no pupils.
My dear sissy, I am writing to you from prison. The cell is small, but my thoughts are vast.
The intellectual's error consists of believing he can be a politician without becoming a politician.
One cannot make a revolution with weaklings.
The mode of being of the new intellectual can no longer consist in eloquence... but in active participation in social and political life.
To criticize one's own past is to prepare for the future.
The active man is the one who bends circumstances and modifies them.
What the proletariat needs is a leader who is at the same time a philosopher.
The press should be the tribune of the people.
Culture has always been the domain of the ruling class.
The philosophy of praxis does not tend to close itself up in a circle of pure theory.
In the absence of a dominant class, the state becomes the instrument of the bureaucracy.
To live means to take sides.
The organic intellectuals are distinguished by their active participation in social life.
Revolution is not a dinner party.
The function of the intellectual is to produce hegemony.
Man is above all a political animal.
The past should be studied not for its own sake, but for the sake of the future.
Every man, in as much as he is a man, is an intellectual.